English version: interview co-founder DarkWorks: Antoine Villette

Antoine: For Infogrames, i think it was to play again among the bests in a genre that it has created. For us, it was to make the best po ible game that we could a uming that it is our very first production. The challenge was very high : reach the quality of such fantastic title as Bio Hazard or Silent Hill, reinvent the myth of Alone In the Dark, build a team... In fact, it was crazy!

The story : we met Infogrames with a playable demo of 1906, an action/adventure game full real time with a quiet good design. They told us that it was too risky to develop an original title with a brand new team an so much ambition. But they proposed that we start the preproduction of the fourth episode of the Alone in the dark serie... And they gave us a "carte blanche". It was a dream! Few months later we succeeded to convince them that we are able to rebirth the legend and we started production.

Antoine: You have to ask them. But i think that they was waiting for the right team. It could be seen a little bit presumptuous but that what they told us.

Antoine: Since the beginning, we have in mind to produce a "cla ic" but we knew that we needed also something different, that's why we started R&D around the concept of opposition between light & darkne . This drive us to the "flashlight" technology. And it seems to work very well !

Antoine: If both, will starting adventurers receive any help in solving the puzzles?

I think that a casual gamer will need about 15mn to master the characters. Adventure gamers will have no problem at all. You have a kind of "on-line help" with the use of the radio calls. If you are stuck, call the other character, it could be very useful !

Antoine: Average. But we tried to make the game more and more interesting. Some puzzles could seem difficult but there is always a simple way to solve them. We was more focused on richne than on complexity.

Antoine: No. The old players will find "private jokes" and references.

Antoine: To build a such fantastic team and to maintain the motivation of the team. From the game point of view, it was to implement the logic of the adventure : stupid mistakes was always po ible.

Antoine: The New Nightmare is supposed to be the first of a new triology, so....

Antoine: The game will remain basically the same. But you will see fantastic graphics improvements for the DC and PS2 versions. Please, be patient....

Antoine: Holiday ? What is it ? No, of course we have to regain the amazing amount of energy that we spent in the last 4 months. But we have already started the preproductions for two new projects...

Antoine: We wanted to offer the player one of the most po ible immersive experience. We didn't reach this goal last year. You know a video game is a living creature, things could dramatically change in 2 or 3 weeks. The complexity of an adventure game is so amazing because all the parts are linked one to another. If you solve a problem here, a new problem does appear there. And to solve all the problems, you need nothing more than time.

Antoine: Bright ! People need story as air or water. They need to be involved in stories, they seek emotions that every daylife can't offer and what could do that better than a great adventure game ?

Antoine: It's a game with a special spirit, a game with it own soul.

Antoine: No, because, I have always a flashlight with me. And you ?

Antoine: Turn the light down, push the volume up and enjoy!

Antoine: No problem.